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Art & Architecture encompasses a broad sweep of material, from early works concerning architecture and architectural history, and books and manuscripts on the fine arts and aesthetics, antiquities and archaeology, to pattern and design books, and private press books and fine bindings. The department also handles original artwork, artistic archives, posters, and propaganda material.

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  1. GRÜNEISEN, [Karl].

    Niclaus Manuel: Leben und Werke eines Malers und Dichters, Kriegers, Staatsmannes und Reformators im sechszehnten...

    Stuttgart & Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1837.

    First and only edition of the first separate biography of the Bern painter, writer, and politician Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (c. 1484–1530), with a striking frontispiece from the Berner Danse macabre.

    £120

  2. HARRIS, James.

    Three Treatises the first concerning Art the second concerning Music Painting and Poetry the third concerning Happiness...

    London, John Nourse and Paul Vaillant, 1765.

    Presentation copies, inscribed ‘From the Author’, of the revised second editions of these two works on art and language by the philosopher and latterly politician James Harris.

    £600

  3. [HERALDRY.]

    Manuscripts relating to Low Countries nobility.

    [Low Countries, mid-seventeenth century?]

    A fine set of manuscripts relating to Low Countries heraldry and history compiled by a learned local antiquary.

    £1750

  4. KÖSTER, Christian.

    Zerstreute Gedanken-Blätter über Kunst. Eine Zugabe zu den Heftchen über Restauration alter Oelgemälde...

    Heidelberg, Christian Friedrich Winter, 1833 [– 1834].

    First editions, very rare, of Köster’s first two addenda to his early and influential work on the restoration of paintings.

    £175

  5. LEMASSON, Albert.

    Two pencil and watercolour sketches for frescos at the church of Saint-Médard at Saint-Mars-du-Désert.

    [Saint-Mars-du-Désert, c. 1942.]

    An attractive pair of sketches for Lemasson’s frescos in the chancel of the church of St Médard in his hometown of Saint-Mars-du-Désert.

    £375

  6. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    Wyndham Lewis the Artist.

    From ‘Blast’ to Burlington House’ … London, Laidlaw & Laidlaw, [1939].

    First edition, first issue.

    £125

  7. [LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]

    156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.

    [Holland, c. 1760–80].

    A truly stunning collection of over 150 original eighteenth-century botanical watercolours, attributed to the noted Dutch botanical artist Pieter van Loo (1731–1784).

    £100000

  8. MACDIARMID, Hugh.

    Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone 1933 …

    Edinburgh, K.D. Duval, [1963].

    First edition.

    £25

  9. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall), considerably expanded, providing a comprehensive visual record of ancient structures and sculptures in Rome as known in the sixteenth century.

    £5500

  10. PETRINI, Giovanni.

    Sixteen copper engravings depicting scenes from the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary.

    [Rome, late eighteenth century.]

    An attractive volume containing sixteen engravings by Giovanni Petrini of scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, including renderings of famous paintings by the likes of Correggio, Poussin, Titian, Raphael, and Rubens.

    £1750

  11. PLUTARCH; John Moyr SMITH, illustrator.

    An Argive Hero … with Illustrations designed after the Manner of early Greek Paintings.

    London, Arthur H. Moxon, 1877.

    Scarce first and only edition of John Moyr Smith’s illustrations of the life of Theseus, accompanying the text of Plutarch’s Life.

    £950

  12. POUND, Ezra.

    Gaudier-Brzeska, a Memoir …

    [London,] The Marvell Press, [1960].

    Revised edition, inscribed by Dorothy Pound on behalf of her husband to ‘J[oyce] + G[eoffrey] Bridson. DP for EP / Sept 1961. Brunnenburg’.

    £250

  13. POUND, Ezra; Mary de RACHEWILTZ, translator.

    Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, con un manifesto vorticista.

    Galleria Apollinaire Milano [Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], 1957].

    First edition thus, no. 123 of 500 copies, a translation by Pound’s daughter Mary de Rachewiltz of extracts from ‘Gaudier: a Postscript’ and ‘Vortex’ on the occasion of an exhibition at the Galleria Apollinaire in December 1957.

    £75

  14. RIDINGER, Johann Elias.

    [A Book of Stags.] Six engravings of deer by Henry Roberts after Ridinger.

    [London,] Robert Sayer, [1770s?].

    A rare and attractive drawing-book, likely the ‘Book of Stags, after Ridinger, and engraved by Roberts’ listed among the one-shilling quarto ‘Drawing Books’ in Sayer and Bennet’s Enlarged Catalogue of 1775. They were first issued by Roberts as A New Book of Stags (one copy recorded...

    £600

  15. [ROSSETTIS.] [PERIODICAL EXTRACTS.]

    A collection of thirty items, mostly articles from periodicals including Revue des deux mondes,...

    1860s to 1880s.

    A characteristic tract volume assembled by William Michael Rossetti, with articles or offprints of interest to him or relating to the Rossettis and their circle, including pieces given to him by Shelley’s friend Edward Trelawny, and his sister’s suitor C. B. Cayley.

    £1800

  16. ROSSETTI, William Michael.

    [Speech at Venice] ‘Sezione IV. – N.1’

    [Venice, 1895].

    Very rare, possibly a unique survival – the author’s own copy. In September 1895 William Michael Rossetti was invited to head the jury at the first Venice Biennale (see Some Reminiscences, II, pp. 549–552). Here his speech, in English, proposes the establishment of an international committee...

    £1000

  17. SASSOON, Siegfried; Paul NASH, illustrator. 

    Nativity. 

    London, Faber & Gwyer, 1927. 

    First edition of this striking collaboration between Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) and Paul Nash (1889–1946). 

    £175

  18. SYMONS, Arthur, editor.

    The Savoy.

    London, Leonard Smithers, 1896.

    First edition of this outstanding, though short-lived, avant-garde periodical, with contributions by Yeats (poems, and the three-part essay on William Blake and his Illustrations to the Divine Comedy), Shaw, Conrad, Dowson, Havelock Ellis (on Nietzsche and Hardy), Lionel Johnson, Beerbohm, Beardsley...

    £3000

  19. ‘TELL’, pseud. [i.e. Jacob EPSTEIN].

    A rude Book.

    Hartford, Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1926.

    First edition, one of 500 copies printed in the United States, of these satirical sketches of Churchill, Shaw, Beerbohm &c. by the celebrated sculptor Jacob Epstein, our copy owned by the political cartoonist Robert Osborn and accompanied by a scathing review written during his undergraduate years at Yale.

    £350

  20. [VILLAMENA, Francesco.]

    A fan leaf drawing of a street fight in Rome.

    [Italy, late eighteenth century.]

    A fine fan leaf drawing, Italian school, late eighteenth century, copied from a print by Francesco Villamena of c. 1601.

    £1650